Port Authority's toll discount plan won't benefit Island

So the Port Authority has decided to grant its subjects on Staten Island a discount when crossing the bridges to New Jersey.

However, they had to put in stupid rules designed, in my opinion, to control us. While we should be controlling them, they, with our feckless government’s approval, step on us. We have to pay them $47.50 IN ADVANCE, so that they can earn interest on it.

But we MUST use it in 30 days or they keep the money. . . . Why the hell should this bloated entity give a darn when we use it?

They got their cash. What this does, however, is negatively impact Staten Island business. If one must go to New Jersey10 times when they might have only gone five times in a 30-day period, they will undoubtedly make purchases while there.

Purchases that might have been made on Staten Island will not be for having to go to New Jersey to satisfy the inane requirements for the discount.

Another reason for us to throw out all the bums, disband all these authorities and commissions and teach government to stop sticking their nose into everything and leave us the heck alone.